How do I get first x elements of an NSArray in Cocoa?

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Objective C Problem Overview

New to Cocoa, and seem to be missing something.

What is the most elegant/idiomatic way to obtain the first x elements of an NSArray as another NSArray? Obviously I can iterate through them and store them manually, but it seems like there has to be a more standard method of doing this.

I was expecting there to be an -arrayWithObjectsInRange: or something similar, but don't see anything...

NSArray* largeArray...// Contains 50 items...

NSArray* smallArray = // fill in the blank     

// smallArray contains first 10 items from largeArray

Thanks!

Objective C Solutions

Solution 1 - Objective C

You can use subarrayWithRange:.

NSArray *smallArray = [largeArray subarrayWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, MIN(10, largeArray.count))];//MIN() used because array must be larger than or equal to range size, else exception will be thrown

Solution 2 - Objective C

firstNItems = [items subarrayWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, MIN(n, items.count))];

Solution 3 - Objective C

In Swift 3 you can use this:

let smallArray = largeArray.prefix(10)

Solution 4 - Objective C

2nd parameter is number of array items to include in the range, not the 'to' index

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